Re: direct-IO writes strange behavior

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 05:14:09PM -0800, Alberto Nava wrote:
> Alberto Nava wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'll try this again on test9 or test11.
> > 
> I tried this with the 2.6.0-test11 and it works fine. The 512k
> writes to a new file are propagaded all the way to the drives. It
> work without having to use '-d unwritten' or preallocation.
> 
> Here is a snip of the proc file I used to verify it.
> 
> (8,16)@85886 b=f24f0d80 r=ef9c49b0 s=140288(size=524288) prio=0 rw 1
> (8,32)@85886 b=ef891680 r=ef9c47b8 s=140288(size=524288) prio=0 rw 1
> (8,48)@85895 b=ef891680 r=ef9c49b0 s=140288(size=524288) prio=0 rw 1
> (8,64)@85895 b=f24f0d80 r=ef9c47b8 s=140288(size=524288) prio=0 rw 1
> (8,80)@85903 b=ef891680 r=ef9c47b8 s=140288(size=524288) prio=0 rw 1
> 

thanks for checking.

> Thanks a lot for your help

no problem.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan